THE inquest into the death of teenage car crash victim Esther Walters will be held tomorrow, less than two weeks after the driver who killed her was spared jail.
A coroner in Southampton will give a verdict on her cause of death following the fatal crash, which happened as the popular 17-year-old was being given a lift home from working at the Sandy Balls holiday park near Fordingbridge.
Esther's family cried out “absolute disgrace” when teenager Richard Hadler was given a suspended sentence after admitting death by careless driving at Southampton Crown Court last month.
The 19-year-old had Esther and colleague Daniel Parker in his Vauxhall Corsa when he lost control and crashed on the B3078 Southampton Road at Godshill, on June 9 last year.
When she died the former Burgate School pupil saved four lives as her organs were donated.
The A-level student had been planning to take a course on teaching English as a second language and friends said she was planning a gap year teaching the language in India before hopefully going to Brighton University.
Esther lived in Fordingbridge with parents Tim and Yvonne and brother Jack. Flowers and tributes being left at the crash scene following the crash family members described Esther as an “angel”.
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